11/00Number of Americans, aside from Wen Ho Lee, who have ever been prosecuted under the 1948 Atomic Energy Act: 0
Number of Los Alamos documents Lee was accused of downloading that were classified at the time he did so: 0
11/00Days by which a Texan’s prison sentence for candy-bar theft this year exceeded his sentence for marijuana possession: 550
11/00Number of families in a Texas town who have sued the school district over its adoption of random drug testing: 1
11/00Points by which the average SAT score of a home-schooled student exceeds that of other U.S. students: 81
11/00Percentage of U.S. public school teachers who hold a second job: 59
11/00Factor by which the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased between 1992 and 1998: 2.9
Factor by which the annual number of cosmetic surgeries performed in the United States increased during that time: 2.5
11/00Percentage change since last May in the number of injuries caused by foot-powered scooters in the United States: +700
11/00Percentage of Americans killed by faulty auto parts in the 1990s who were killed by Firestone tires: 0.1
11/00Average annual number of traffic accidents in Iowa caused by low visibility due to corn stalks: 65
11/00Inches by which Iowa’s tallest corn stalks exceed the average height of an adult Asian elephant’s eye: 17
11/00Rank of the China National Petroleum Corporation among companies with the largest stake in the Sudanese oil industry: 1
11/00Ratio of the average cost of a gallon of gas in Britain last September to that of a gallon of Starbucks coffee: 1:4
11/00Number of former Soviet republics whose per capita GDP was higher in 1997 than in 1990: 0
Percentage change since then: +6
11/00Percentage change since 1979 in the number of cocaine users in the United States: -62
11/00Amount Anheuser-Busch contributed as a sponsor of the St. Louis presidential debate this year: $550,000
11/00Minimum number of chromosomal regions proposed as sites for the tendency toward schizophrenia: 6
11/00Year in which anxiety eclipsed depression among the most common mental-health problems in the United States: 1984
11/00Percentage change in per capita U.S. sugar consumption since 1982: +28
11/00Amount the Centers for Disease Control has spent redecorating a stairwell to encourage obese employees to walk: $14,900
11/00Number of the six formerly inert elements whose inertia Finnish scientists have managed to disrupt: 4
11/00Number of words for boredom in the Mohegan language, according to an ad for the Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino: 0
11/00Estimated number of hours of labor performed by African-American slaves between 1619 and 1865: 222,505,049
Estimated value of that labor, compounded at 6 percent interest through 1993: $97,100,000,000,000
11/00Number of felons enlisted from an Ohio halfway house last July as extras in the Cincinnati Opera’s production of Aida: 21
11/00Number of Native Americans sought by a Pilgrim descendants’ group this year to re-create the first Thanksgiving: 90
11/00Price of a copulating turkey decoy, designed to flush fowl inflamed with territorial jealousy: $49.99
11/00Hours after an Australian fisherman fell overboard in August that his head was found in the belly of a 98-pound cod: 21